Oddly I think that may be the only time I have really liked her and seen her as an endearing human figure.

I must be tired or something.

What an awesome perk though, I never knew!!

That is a very cool little deal-io for the supremes and I have no snotty or negative thing to say about it whatever. I would like to know which pieces each justice has and maybe even why they chose them, it would make a nice little article.

Mubarak, Franco, and all those other decrepit dictators have had nothing on our Supreme Court Justices.....I can udnderstand the seductions of wealth and fame, but power (as opposed to autonomy) not so much. I understand that people kiss the ass of a Supreme Court Justice more than they do so for a retired Justice. But is the differential worth spending the last days of your life listening to arguments about the Commerce clause and reading endless mego drivel?

Agree w. William here. There are roughly a 1000 islands to visit in the Agean Sea. Were I her I'd be spending my last days on a 32' Sloop hitting as many as I could before my liver exploded from all the "mass quantities" of rum, tequila and/or gin I would be consuming while in transit out on the bounding main--either that or Bora Bora.

Many people seem to loathe ancient USSC justices -- especially when they're on the opposite side of the aisle, so to speak -- but I have a certain fondness for their institutional knowledge of the way things once worked, and how that compares to now.

There's nothing wrong with having someone around who can say -- this lawsuit reminds me of something from 1982 -- why is it coming up again?

Willaim makes a great comparison that our Supreme Court Justices unwilling to voluntarily forego power are very similar to the old dictators around the world cling to their power (and whom people like Ginsburg would be the first to criticize). I have never been much impressed by Ginsburg's personality or her intelligence.

Brigham Young University has a very nice permanent art collection and -- at least when I was there -- allowed faculty and department officers to request and display pieces. There was a scandal about some pieces that got lost, which is why I added my caveat above. But it was still a cool program that got the art out of the catacombs.